Active Java Asychronous Transfer (IIRC) it allows you to run xml queries from the client to the server with out posting the page.
Compare maps.google.com to mapquest.com. With Mapquest, when you zoom/move the map, it posts to the server and refreshes the frame. In google maps, there is no post, the map just moves/zooms like it would on a thick client.
because then the same people would still own the stock, just twice as much at half the value. Selling new stock get's it into new people's hands. Although I wouldn't be suprise if DarkNet is one of those investmenst.
-Rick
no, but $4 bill could buy out most of the darknet in the US and the hardware to setup a nation wide high speed wireless system. Google may go ahead and pick a wireless standard for us.
Agreed, P2P can grow to be an amazing tool, but the social engineering behind it has to catch up to the technology. Integrating P2P connections into browsers (mozilla, IE7) will be a huge step, but even more so will be continuous improvements in wireless and ubiquitous technology coupled with a fluid social interface.
But then you are depending on those with money to share content. I worked with a site for a video game mod last year. Great site, no adds, wonderful content (and mod files sizes in the magnitude of Megs). Worked off of donations, a few bucks here, a few bucks there would cover the bandwidth needs. After a while, the site's popularity grew, some links from other very popular sites to this site drove the bandwidth and server load through the roof. The site admin bumped the server to a tougher server, which could handle it, and eventually the guy running the site had to pay for a much higher end hosting solution and bandwidth. That shot his relatively low bandwidth bill to way beyond that of what a part time pet project could justify. He started enforcing free registration, and added google adds, which helped, but the cost of thousands apon thousands of users downloading multiple files from 1 meg to 50 megs was extremely costly, even with 3 mirrors. He added more advertising to help cover the cost. And the site is still up today.
Acording to your point of view, he should not have taken any advertising, because it would push people away from his site, but had he not taken any advertisment, his site would be perpetually unreachable until no one visted it due to it's instability.
Advertising, whether you like it or not, is what allows people with limited budgets to maintain high bandwidth publications.
The problem with that is that if marketers are not making sales, they will stop advertising in those channels, which means content providers will lose their add revenue, which means they will turn to pay -per-content or close.
So go ahead and block all adds, you will know where to look when your favorite content provider loses their income;)
Not going to happen. You are either going to get MORE untargeted adds with a lower success rate, or LESS targeted add with a higher success rate. So if you keep your surfing details super private, you will get pop-ups for lavitra and enzyte. If you letter you habbits be known, you may still get those adds, but likely only if you visit a combination of elderly, porn, and health sites.
I love cookies. I think they are awesome. Cookies let Amazon know what I was looking at last so they can present me a list of books that I might and often do like with out having to search for hours.
Cookies let/. keep me logged in
Cookies help track my passwords so I don't have to look up each and every password each time I visit a site.
If cookies help some company that I'm visiting improve their marketing making it easier or better for me to get the product I need, that's awesome!
Call me a troll, but I'm not on the tin-foil hat wearing anti-coolaide conspiracy band wagon. I like things that make browsing easier and more productive.
Are speed of advancement and other time investment vs reward just a result of market research and player feedback? Or is there actual psycological research that goes into the decision about how fast a player can advance?
1) Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter,
or any new and useful improvement thereof;
I saw no mention a an "easy to use graphical interface" in the mentioned patent. That sounds like it would be a great addition to the invention. Go patent it then sue the offending company for infringment.
Either that or show that the company has until now shown no interest in preventing others from recreating the invention, and thus it has fallen into public domain.
Or find any company that has a product that does the same thing that predates the patent to show prior art.
I was talking to one of my profs about starting up a "Rational" party. We decided against it after we realised that if we were elected we would spontaniously combust apon entering our designated offices.
-Rick
AJAX isn't built in, but it is a perfectly viable tool. Just like data layer abstraction isn't "built in" doesn't mean you can't do it.
The only thing I know of that requires IE is if you server a windows app over the web IN IE, but I've never seen it done professionally, primarily because.Net by default prevents.Net assemblies from running anywhere's but locally. So unless you want to make your user's accept a certificate and adjust their.Net security (trust can be set for a specific assembly) it's just not worth it.
I can say that it is an amazing tool, with it's own limitations.
One of the greatest features though is it's combination of rapid application development (ala VB6) and fully Object Oriented design patterns (ala C++). This results in the ability to quickly create modules and reuse them extensively.
For example, we spent 4-6 months working on a framework, interface and logic for a windows based lease reporting tool. In that framework, we developed our data layer, which completely abstracts the database, and data related functions, from the rest of the code. The next project on the chopping block was a web based employee tracking program. Since we already had the employee data object built, it was just a matter of pulling them, and some related business objects into the web project. Total development time: 2 weeks. By using an OO designed N-teir framework developers can reduce development time (after the initial framework), reduce bugs, reduce redundant code, improve maintenance, etc.
According to this site: http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/in ternet-pornography-statistics.html we're talking about a 12 billion dollar business in the US ($57 billion world wide). Assuming that the tax does not reduce subscripts, we're talking about $3 billion a year from this tax. I couldn't find anything specific on state or fedral online Pedifile tracking, but I'd guess the national and state budgets combined are under triple digit millions (ie: $1-99 mil).
So the question is, how is the law enforcement community going to deal with a YEARLY $2.9 billion dollar bonus for online kiddie porn tracking.
The answer is, they're not, that money will get siphoned off and the online police will get a small bonus, or a centralized office and campaign center. The rest will likely go into re-election campaigns. beh.
Ubuntu still has issues. Some of it is stuff they can fix, some of it is other people problems (FF,Gnome,ATI,etc). I think anoter year and they'll be looking good, expecially if they can get better driver support and keep getting funding.
To be fair to Mandriva, my experiences have been based off of Redhat and Ubuntu, and one of my Unix admin buddies keeps saying that I should drop Ubuntu and run as fast as I can to Mandriva. He also has the same video card as I do and said it works fine.
And on the up side, there ARE forums to troll for solutions to my problems.
And for the creature comforts, I want to be able to use my windows key as a augmentor and a key press. I want to hit the 'windows' key and have the primary desktop menu open. I want to hit Win-E and have Nautalis open, I want to hit Win-F and have the file searching tool open, hell, I want Nautalis to have the searching tool IN it so I don't need 2 seperate apps. I don't want to HAVE to use the CLI. Yes, some things can be faster, but for the most part, a good gui can be almost as fast and much easier.
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Active Java Asychronous Transfer (IIRC) it allows you to run xml queries from the client to the server with out posting the page.
Compare maps.google.com to mapquest.com. With Mapquest, when you zoom/move the map, it posts to the server and refreshes the frame. In google maps, there is no post, the map just moves/zooms like it would on a thick client.
-Rick
because then the same people would still own the stock, just twice as much at half the value. Selling new stock get's it into new people's hands. Although I wouldn't be suprise if DarkNet is one of those investmenst. -Rick
no, but $4 bill could buy out most of the darknet in the US and the hardware to setup a nation wide high speed wireless system. Google may go ahead and pick a wireless standard for us.
-Rick
Agreed, P2P can grow to be an amazing tool, but the social engineering behind it has to catch up to the technology. Integrating P2P connections into browsers (mozilla, IE7) will be a huge step, but even more so will be continuous improvements in wireless and ubiquitous technology coupled with a fluid social interface.
-Rick
But then you are depending on those with money to share content. I worked with a site for a video game mod last year. Great site, no adds, wonderful content (and mod files sizes in the magnitude of Megs). Worked off of donations, a few bucks here, a few bucks there would cover the bandwidth needs. After a while, the site's popularity grew, some links from other very popular sites to this site drove the bandwidth and server load through the roof. The site admin bumped the server to a tougher server, which could handle it, and eventually the guy running the site had to pay for a much higher end hosting solution and bandwidth. That shot his relatively low bandwidth bill to way beyond that of what a part time pet project could justify. He started enforcing free registration, and added google adds, which helped, but the cost of thousands apon thousands of users downloading multiple files from 1 meg to 50 megs was extremely costly, even with 3 mirrors. He added more advertising to help cover the cost. And the site is still up today.
Acording to your point of view, he should not have taken any advertising, because it would push people away from his site, but had he not taken any advertisment, his site would be perpetually unreachable until no one visted it due to it's instability.
Advertising, whether you like it or not, is what allows people with limited budgets to maintain high bandwidth publications.
-Rick
The problem with that is that if marketers are not making sales, they will stop advertising in those channels, which means content providers will lose their add revenue, which means they will turn to pay -per-content or close.
;)
So go ahead and block all adds, you will know where to look when your favorite content provider loses their income
-Rick
I do not delete cookies. I find them wonderfully helpful and think the paranoia surrounding them is completely assinine.
-Rick
I agree whole heartedly. Cookies got a bad name in the late nineties and have never recovered from the uninformeds' position that they must be evil.
I also agree with the AC who said that the vast majority of 'average' users don't even know what cookies are, let alone block or delete them.
-Rick
Not going to happen. You are either going to get MORE untargeted adds with a lower success rate, or LESS targeted add with a higher success rate. So if you keep your surfing details super private, you will get pop-ups for lavitra and enzyte. If you letter you habbits be known, you may still get those adds, but likely only if you visit a combination of elderly, porn, and health sites.
-Rick
I love cookies. I think they are awesome. Cookies let Amazon know what I was looking at last so they can present me a list of books that I might and often do like with out having to search for hours.
/. keep me logged in
Cookies let
Cookies help track my passwords so I don't have to look up each and every password each time I visit a site.
If cookies help some company that I'm visiting improve their marketing making it easier or better for me to get the product I need, that's awesome!
Call me a troll, but I'm not on the tin-foil hat wearing anti-coolaide conspiracy band wagon. I like things that make browsing easier and more productive.
-Rick
Are speed of advancement and other time investment vs reward just a result of market research and player feedback? Or is there actual psycological research that goes into the decision about how fast a player can advance?
-Rick
They forgot the sarcasm tags.
-Rick
Good to see Amador Valey HS was there again this year.
-Rick
I'd be careful with that stuff. He claims it's non-toxic, but the primary ingrediant has an LD50 of 4180 MG/KG.
-Rick
Mod parent up! That is probrably the best answer that is going to show up here.
-Rick
I saw no mention a an "easy to use graphical interface" in the mentioned patent. That sounds like it would be a great addition to the invention. Go patent it then sue the offending company for infringment.
Either that or show that the company has until now shown no interest in preventing others from recreating the invention, and thus it has fallen into public domain.
Or find any company that has a product that does the same thing that predates the patent to show prior art.
-Rick
I was talking to one of my profs about starting up a "Rational" party. We decided against it after we realised that if we were elected we would spontaniously combust apon entering our designated offices. -Rick
AJAX also doesn't "Click" when it submits ;)
-Rick
AJAX isn't built in, but it is a perfectly viable tool. Just like data layer abstraction isn't "built in" doesn't mean you can't do it.
.Net by default prevents .Net assemblies from running anywhere's but locally. So unless you want to make your user's accept a certificate and adjust their .Net security (trust can be set for a specific assembly) it's just not worth it.
The only thing I know of that requires IE is if you server a windows app over the web IN IE, but I've never seen it done professionally, primarily because
-Rick
I can say that it is an amazing tool, with it's own limitations.
One of the greatest features though is it's combination of rapid application development (ala VB6) and fully Object Oriented design patterns (ala C++). This results in the ability to quickly create modules and reuse them extensively.
For example, we spent 4-6 months working on a framework, interface and logic for a windows based lease reporting tool. In that framework, we developed our data layer, which completely abstracts the database, and data related functions, from the rest of the code. The next project on the chopping block was a web based employee tracking program. Since we already had the employee data object built, it was just a matter of pulling them, and some related business objects into the web project. Total development time: 2 weeks. By using an OO designed N-teir framework developers can reduce development time (after the initial framework), reduce bugs, reduce redundant code, improve maintenance, etc.
-Rick
If any of those limey bastards go hanging our opperatives out to dry, I'm all for crucifying them.
/. as well.
That goes for
-Rick
According to this site: http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/in ternet-pornography-statistics.html we're talking about a 12 billion dollar business in the US ($57 billion world wide). Assuming that the tax does not reduce subscripts, we're talking about $3 billion a year from this tax. I couldn't find anything specific on state or fedral online Pedifile tracking, but I'd guess the national and state budgets combined are under triple digit millions (ie: $1-99 mil).
So the question is, how is the law enforcement community going to deal with a YEARLY $2.9 billion dollar bonus for online kiddie porn tracking.
The answer is, they're not, that money will get siphoned off and the online police will get a small bonus, or a centralized office and campaign center. The rest will likely go into re-election campaigns. beh.
-Rick
I mostly agree with you.
Ubuntu still has issues. Some of it is stuff they can fix, some of it is other people problems (FF,Gnome,ATI,etc). I think anoter year and they'll be looking good, expecially if they can get better driver support and keep getting funding.
-Rick
To be fair to Mandriva, my experiences have been based off of Redhat and Ubuntu, and one of my Unix admin buddies keeps saying that I should drop Ubuntu and run as fast as I can to Mandriva. He also has the same video card as I do and said it works fine.
And on the up side, there ARE forums to troll for solutions to my problems.
And for the creature comforts, I want to be able to use my windows key as a augmentor and a key press. I want to hit the 'windows' key and have the primary desktop menu open. I want to hit Win-E and have Nautalis open, I want to hit Win-F and have the file searching tool open, hell, I want Nautalis to have the searching tool IN it so I don't need 2 seperate apps. I don't want to HAVE to use the CLI. Yes, some things can be faster, but for the most part, a good gui can be almost as fast and much easier.
-Rick
Will my graphics card work?
Will I have sound?
Will it take 2 weeks and constant forum trolling to find solutions to my problems?
Will I have a consitant interface that doesn't change from one area of the OS to another?
Will I have all of the creature-features I'm used to in Windows?
I'm still partially on the Linux bandwagon, but my last series of experiences left me a little less excited.
-Rick